Brown and Houston's friendship grew after Brown attended Houston's birthday party later that same year.

Brown later proposed marriage in April 1992 and the couple officially married on July 18 of the year outside Houston's New Jersey residence.

Following the death of his ex-wife Houston the following February, Brown struggled to perform at a New Edition show the night of Houston's death, shouting, " I love you, Whitney ", while in tears.

Brown was invited to appear at Houston's memorial service at New Jersey but left before the service began.

In an interview given to The Today Show in May of 2012, Brown said security was the reason why he and his family left Houston's service with Brown stating he loved Houston's family and told Matt Lauer that he had spent " 14 beautiful years " with Houston as his wife.

The deal was approved by Brown and the Houston City Council, but Watson started an opposition group against the referendum, saying the arena was " not in Houston's interest ".

Lee P. Brown, Houston's first African-American mayor, was elected in 1997.

She was the first mayor to appoint an African American, Lee P. Brown, as Houston's police chief.

Houston's plan to attack and defeat Jim Crow segregation by demonstrating the inequality in the " separate but equal " doctrine from the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision as it pertained to public education in the United States was the masterstroke that brought about the landmark Brown decision.

In 2003, White, a Democrat, ran in Houston's officially nonpartisan mayoral election to succeed term-limited Mayor Lee Brown, who was the first African-American mayor of the city.

One of White's opponents in the race was Republican Orlando Sanchez, a Cuban-American and a former Houston City Councilman, who had unsuccessfully challenged Brown in a heated 2001 bid to become Houston's first Hispanic mayor.

* November 1997-Former Houston Police Chief Lee P. Brown is elected as Houston's first African-American mayor ; at the same time, Annise Parker is the first openly gay or lesbian city council member.

Stephanie Coontz, a professor of family history and the author of several books and essays about the history of marriage, says that this brief remark by Quayle about Murphy Brown " kicked off more than a decade of outcries against the ' collapse of the family.

Her second marriage, in December 1947, was to the famous bass player Ray Brown, whom she had met while on tour with Dizzy Gillespie's band a year earlier.

Norman Macleod, made a deathbed confession repenting of his action in presiding over Queen Victoria's marriage to John Brown.

Following fourteen years of marriage, Brown and Houston filed for legal separation in September 2006.

Following his marriage to Houston, Brown began dabbling heavily into drug use.

George Harrison was best man at Brown's second marriage in 2000 ; Brown had appeared on two songs on Harrison's album Gone Troppo, and also featured on a track on Harrison's last album, Brainwashed.

The marriage did however not become a matter of public record until January 21, 2011, when Brown told the Hip-Hop Non-Stop TV-Show.

Judge Vaughn Walker cited Scalia's dissent in his decision in Perry v. Brown that found California's Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

Clifford Brown died on the second anniversary of his marriage to his wife LaRue, which was also LaRue's 22nd birthday.

Cases include Perry v. Brown, which challenges the validity of California's Proposition 8 under the United States Constitution Sevcik v. Sandoval, which challenges Nevada's system of marriage for different-sex couples and domestic partnerships for same-sex couples under the equal protection clause.

His first marriage, to the former Teri Brown in 1972, ended in divorce in 1976.

After more than 50 years of marriage, her husband, David Brown, predeceased her at the age of 93 on February 1, 2010.

Her children from her first marriage to Clifton Brown, who Alfred Kroeber adopted and gave his surname to, were Ted Kroeber and Clifton Kroeber, historian.

Shortly after his marriage to Sophie Levene on 22 April 1937, Brown was employed as a ledger clerk with the Transport and General Workers Union, and appointed District Organiser for Watford the next year.

Again, Marty and Doc manage to restore the continuity, that now however sports minor alterations ( Arthur and Silvia, Marty's grandparents, prepone their marriage to 1931 ( it was 1936 in the original timeline ), Doc Brown spends more time in 1986 and less traveling through time, Kid Tannen is now reformed, married with Edna Strickland and having a better influence over Biff ).

The Brown University Women Writers Project developed at the end of the 1980s from the marriage of two communities, early modern women ’ s studies and electronic text encoding.

Harcourt's diaries contain a report that one of Queen Victoria's chaplains, Reverend Norman Macleod, made a deathbed confession repenting of his action in presiding over Queen Victoria's marriage to her servant, John Brown.

In addition, Alfred adopted Theodora's sons by her first marriage, Ted and Clifton Brown, who took his surname.

Born in Dallas, Texas, as one of four children ( excluding her mother's two children from an earlier marriage ), to postal clerk Calvin Roy Darnell and the former Pearl Brown.

Ross had a son Steven from his first marriage, to Lynda Brown.

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Still infatuated with Don, Jill pursues him and Cath to Bude, Cornwall, where they are trying fix their marriage at a New-Age retreat called The Trees, which employs holistic and esoteric methods, run by non-recovering sex addict Jacques ( played by Ralph Brown ).

She married composer Nacio Herb Brown in 1934, but the marriage was annulled a year later because Brown's previous divorce had not been finalized at the time they were married.

Mando, pleading her cause, must have said that Dr. Brown was the most distinguished physician in the United States of America, for our man poured out his symptoms and drew a madly waving line indicating the irregularity of his pulse.

It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Dr. James Brown Fisk, physicist, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was elected to the Board of Trustees.

He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.

The young apprentice apparently did well by Mr. Brown, for in the third year of his apprenticeship Lucian was offered a full partnership in the firm ; ;

Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.

The new work was a boon to the partnership, not only for its own value but particularly for the stimulation it provided to the imagination of J. R. Brown toward yet further developments for production equipment.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.

Along with J. R. Brown's other major developments, the universal grinding machine was profoundly influential in setting the course of Brown & Sharpe for many years to come.

In 1868, however, a truce was called between the companies, and the partnership of Darling, Brown & Sharpe was formed.

Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.

Perhaps the outstanding standard bearer of Mr. Brown's tradition for accuracy was Mr. Oscar J. Beale, whose mechanical genius closely paralleled that of Mr. Brown, and whose particular forte was the development of the exceedingly accurate measuring machinery that enabled Brown & Sharpe to manufacture gages, and therefore its products, with an accuracy exceeding anything then available elsewhere in the world.

Also important on the Brown & Sharpe scene, at the turn of the century, was Mr. Richmond Viall, Works Superintendent of the company from 1876 to 1910.

He was an ardent champion of the Brown & Sharpe Apprentice Program and personal counselor to countless able men who first developed their industrial talents with the company.

During his presidency, the company's physical plant was enormously expanded, and the length and breadth of the Brown & Sharpe machine tool line became the greatest in the world.